Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Weather creates character.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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